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Author:

Forman, Ross G.

Title:

China and the Victorian imagination : empires entwined / Ross G. Forman.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

x, 300 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
English literature--Chinese influences.
Great Britain--Chinese influences.--Chinese influences.
China--In literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-288) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Topsy-turvy Britain and China -- The manners and customs of the modern Chinese: narrating China through the treaty ports -- Projecting from possession point: James Dalziel's Chronicles of Hong Kong -- Peking plots: representing the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 -- Britain "knit and nationalised": Asian invasion novels in Britain, 1898-1914 -- Staging the celestial -- A Cockney Chinatown: the literature of Limehouse, London -- Conclusion: No rest for the West.

Series:

Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 85

ISBN:

1107013151
9781107013155

OCLC:

(OCoLC)823927711

LCCN:

2012050600

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)